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but we met early in college. So we were like babies, you know, and then we were You were together for seven teen years before having a kid? Sixteen years? Sixteen years. Yeah. Sixteen years before having a kid, which were wonderful sixteen years, and
to figure out a way such that your partner has stages that strangers and other people are applauding for her. Really go out of your way to try and give her venues and arenas and environments where strangers can applaud for her. So it's just not alway
is not to make more economic security or to make children. I think it's such that we have someone to witness our lives, to notice our lives. And I've been married before. And I think one of the reasons that I wasn't a great husband the first go aroun
...to find my spouse and my soulmate so young. I would have never expected to only have two jobs after college so far and be afforded unusually good opportunities at a young age. I would never have expected to live in the Northeast. And if I think about
of free cash flow and you can go invest gobs and gobs of money. I think that is truly different right now, the amount of capital that is going in. Okay. What concerns you most in the world today, Jeff? The dissolution of the family structure in the w
but in Bradcoins, it's only $1,000. And $1,000 sounds a lot better than 10,000, so I feel good. So I actually had to adopt a lot of these mechanisms where, like, I'll make a Martine coin and it's worth this much money. What got worse with money? This
You know, it doesn't just happen. And the same way that my you can see, but my six pack requires work. They don't just miss magically appear. I have to invest to get the six pack. The relationship is just the same. But really, when when my wife told
the cost of having the wrong partner is high for me. But then I also, like, realized, man, I have a friend of mine who's divorced happily, and he still loves the shit out of his kids, and it's still beautiful. It's a mess, but there's all of that lov
higher than single men. Like there's a real thing about like bankruptcy rates are lower, for married men than single men. There's a real thing here that is not It's true that you argue that marriage is good for downside protection, but a cap for upsi
I never didn't optimize for family. I just wanna finish on, actually, Karen. You you mentioned her being such a ongoing and continuous incredible force in your life, being your partner. What's the most non obvious secret to having such a brilliantly
So that applies. I'm I'm a person. When I find when I find a meal I really like, I'll stick to it for for a long time. I'm definitely a monogamy person, I think. But that also could be a component of, like, where I grew up. You know? There's a certai
are very real. I wish I can remember the exact number, but something in the range of eighty percent of people say that their marriage is worse after having kids. Knowing that that is a very real phenomenon and trying to get ahead of that, I think, is
So there's a distribution. Like most first time marriages do not end in divorce, although a significant number of second time marriages end up in divorce. Yep. That's true. So that's a real thing. Second, the data behind this is undeniable. For men,
...my spouse and my soulmate so young. I would have never expected
There's there's only so long that I can find it amusing to play with a two year old. That's probably my biggest concern. I've been told from friends of mine who are on the other side of this that when it's your kids, it's just totally different, and
a man in a relationship. That's sort of traditionally because it falls often along these gender gender lines. But the problem is if that person then starts to weaponize the fact that they're controlling the finances and starts using words like, I'm g
to actually think about doing things that maybe I shouldn't do but that I could do, something that I talk a lot about now, sort of the should versus could. It was a little bit of this, I should go to this school. I should get this grade. I should get
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